Welp, here we go. Polls close in a couple of hours in Germany. A shift to the right is a foregone conclusion; two of the three members of the recently collapsed "traffic light coalition", the Free Democrats and the SPD, stand to lose a number...
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I hardly need to say this to you, but the Germans are sure taking this to heart. Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla saw car sales drop by 59% year-on-year in Germany.
Item one: in my push to finish all my grading and a series of end of semester commitment I missed the Georgia presidential election. It was a doozy. Georgia’s governing.
Fascinating piece from Rachel Cohen about the German experiment to create universal child care. The piece is pretty long and goes into such issues as German attitudes toward mothers raising children (quite traditional) and some of the bigger challenges facing the German economy. Let me...
This is a really big deal, truly unprecedented in modern German history. Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of.
Mercedes has engaged in large-scale union busting around the United Auto Workers campaign to unionize its Alabama plant. As the vote wraps up today, international labor solidarity means Mercedes may.
Workers in Germany's transportation industries have basically shut down the country by going on strike. Millions of travellers in Germany are facing severe disruption to transport services because of strikes by rail and airport staff. A two-day strike by Lufthansa airline ground staff has coincided...
The Germans' obsession with driving incredibly fast across a country that isn't even that large by the standards of the really big nations with big open spaces is something I've.
On May 14, 1889. leading coal workers meet with Kaiser Wilhelm to settle a strike that had brought 100,000 coal workers off the job in Germany’s Ruhr Valley. This was.
To me, the question about why the Germans hold nostalgia for openly racist regimes is not that hard to answer, but let's answer it anyway because the Germans love them some Southern plantation nostalgia: On the U3 Line of Berlin’s mass transit system, there is...
Whether this can help us understand Qanon or not, I have no real opinion. But this story of the West German witchcraft allegations of the early 1950s is downright fascinating.
On December 30, 1900, advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help the German colonialists institute a southern-style cotton regime.